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Salah Zaimeche

Dr Salah Eddin Zaimeche Al-Djazairi has lectured and researched at the University of Constantine in Algeria for more than ten years. He also tutored at the Department of Geography of the University of Manchester, UK. More recently, he has worked as a research assistant at UMIST (Manchester) in the field of history of science.

Dr Salah has published many academic works. Publications in scientific journals include papers on environmental degradation, and desertification, as well as papers on politics and change in North Africa, and problems of economic and social development. He has also contributed historical entries to various encyclopaedias such as the Columbia Gazetteer, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Francophone Studies. The largest written contribution by the author has been on the subject of Muslim science and civilisation.

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Figure 1. The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily in 1154, one of the most advanced ancient world maps. Modern consolidation, created from the 70 double-page spreads of the original atlas. (Source)
If the degree of evolution of any...

Figure 1: Muslim expansion by the end of Umayyad rule in 750. (Source).
Mc Neill and Waldman remark:
Obviously, ancient feuds and hatreds are far from dead. The clash of doctrine that arose from Muhammad’s revelation, reinforced by centuries of warfare between...

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An Introduction to Muslim Science by Salah Zaimeche
The Greek civilisation that sprang into existence centuries before Jesus (PUH) was a brilliant civilisation that encompassed subjects such as philosophy, mathematics, geography, astronomy and...

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A review on Muslim Contribution to Astronomy by Salah Zaimeche
Between the 10th and 13th centuries a great transfer of knowledge and learning took place between the Muslim world and Europe. This transfer included works covering all subjects...

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A review on Muslim Contribution to Astronomy by Salah Zaimeche
The work of the Muslim astronomers who lived between 9th and 12th centuries was both innovative and accurate. Its influence was felt for generations to come. Many of the most basic...

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Piri Reis - World Maps and Kitab I-Bahriye (The Book of Sea Lore) by Salah Zaimeche
Versions of the Book
The matter of Piri Reis' World Map, however exciting, can be the object of a subsequent study; here, focus will be placed on his...

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A review of Muslim Geography by Salah Zaimeche
Ibn Jubair (Ibn Jubayr) was born in Valencia. He travelled widely, (endnote 20) offering good accounts of the life of Muslims and their surroundings throughout the known world. The extracts that follow...

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Islamic Social Sciences by Salah Zaimeche
Al-Muqaddasi (or Al-Maqdisi)(endnote 1), (b. 946 - d. 1000 C.E.), originally from Al-Quds (Jerusalem), hence his name, is by far one of the most instructive of all early Islamic writers on the society of...

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Islam and Science by Salah Zaimeche
"Read: In the name of your Lord Who creates - creates man from a clot. Read: And your Lord is the Most Bounteous, Who teaches by the use of the pen, teaches man that which he knew not." Quran 96:105
The crucial...